Pleas entered for illegal trafficking of Coke®; plus Ice
The bad people who tried to peddle internal Coca-Cola trade secrets, including samples of a new drink, to Pepsi — only to have Pepsi turn... Read more
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Coke adds Second Life?
I’ve written before about the emerging issues involving the use of trademarks in so-called virtual reality. There’s been a lot of buzz on the Internet... Read more
Best of 2005: Have a Coke and a Trial
Originally posted on July 15, 2005. India doesn’t have a First Amendment, as such, but from what I read its free speech protections are similar... Read more
Have a Coke and a Trial
India doesn’t have a First Amendment, as such, but from what I read its free speech protections are similar to those in the West. So... Read more
Best of LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION®: Nuts to us? Or a “real” Charlie Brown Christmas? (Archive post)
Originally published December 9, 2009. Now a heartwarming tradition of bloggy goodness. Instapundit links to this item about the incredible shrinking Charlie Brown specials —... Read more
Trademarks in the age of 140 characters or less
Or at least trademark logos. Context: If you’re over 50, you can probably remember when television commercials were mainly 60 seconds or 30 seconds. There... Read more
Bad for branding, worse for trade secrets
Pesticides in soft drinks, that is. Or even allegations of them. Boing Boing reports that a court in India has ordered Pepsi and Coke to... Read more
Magnesium ad nauseum
Ryan Gile reports that it’s Coke vs. Pepsi on behalf of their sport-drink proxies, Gatorade and Powerade: Coke’s advertising . . . makes the claim... Read more
Best of 2012: The way of all flash
First posted March 27, 2012. So, what happens when a trademark registration lapses? The post at the link, by Corsearch, is, yeah, kind of an... Read more
Tweetmark infringement
When I first retired from my utter misuse of Twitter (it was all the rage!), I did so by politely bidding farewell to my 500 or... Read more
A free market moment
Stephen Laniel finds, in trademark law, reason not to throw the whole thing over: The public-health justification for trademark law is pretty clear: if the... Read more
Not So Plain Dealing
Instapundit links to this teef-gnashing item from Michael Silence about this super-secret scandal, based on leaked documents, that the Cleveland Plain Dealer would for sure... Read more
Tall orders
It’s always something, isn’t it. Here’s the latest shipwreck-in-the-making — you can’t call tall ships tall ships any more, matey: The age of wooden ships... Read more
Drive-by infringement
Steve Baird says initial interest confusion is “the real thing” and in the process seeks to “add life” to Professor McCarthy’s famous “evil highway road sign”... Read more